> I'm not sure how things work in the US, but in some parts of the world the governments actually use the income from taxes to provide valuable services to their population.

Are those services valuable enough that the folks that use them would pay what it costs to provide them?

I like it when other folks buy things for me as much as the next person. However, doing that on a large scale ends up being a way for middlemen to take from everyone and much of the "free stuff" is a mistake.